Real success comes only when our efforts lead us to a prayer that the Upper Light answers. The friends are the matter on which we can express these efforts.
Therapist. Kabbalah is the next degree after we sort out this world. Whatever’s provided as a solution in this world is one’s first line of defense. I need to go to pay my taxes, go to the doctor, have a job, kids, etc. The Creator provided this field of work at this level, and then there’s a higher level we can build upon it.
Because He accepts the work of Lo Lishma. We just have to reach the complete Lo Lishma. Then we reach Lishma. So, the problem is not that my work is isn’t Lishma but that I’m usually not even working in Lo Lishma.
Thanks, Brendan. The last lesson in this course explains this a bit. We’re not in these phases yet. These are the phases Kabbalists reveal having risen from our world to the top. We’re below all the worlds and need to rise, starting with the Restriction on the egoistic Will to Receive.